Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 14:20:38 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: XFCE oddity .... Message-ID: <53F4F506.6070003@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408201141510.43414@fledge.watson.org> References: <53F4AF84.4050002@hiwaay.net> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408201141510.43414@fledge.watson.org>
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Interesting .... It does indeed work on the title bar & panel marker,
although I can't find most of it in the man page, especially the various
control sequences ....
On 08/20/14 10:48, doug wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> .... I am running XFCE under FBSD 9.3, w/ xfwm4 window manager, all
>> box-stock XFCE. I use rxvt terminals running tcsh for CLI work,
>> usually have *many* open at one time. I have the following tcsh alias
>> set:
>>
>> cwdcmd 'echo -n "\033]2;${HOST}:\057$cwd\007\033]1;$cwd:t\007"'
>>
>> Under my old desktop (FC14, Gnome desktop, rxvt terminals, tcsh),
>> this would set the title bar of the window to '<hostname>:current
>> directory', and the panel marker similarly, worked AOK. It is only
>> partially working under FBSD/XFCE, however. Whenever I cd from one
>> dir to another, nothing happens. Indeed, most of my terminals just
>> say 'rxvt' in their title bar & panel marker. However, if I SSH to
>> another machine, or to my ISP (They give you shell account on their
>> server :-) ), the title bar & panel marker are correctly updated.
>> What gives here ? The fact that it works sometimes indicates that my
>> setting for the alias is OK, but XFCE or FVWM4 isn't responding
>> correctly .... Bug ? TIA ....
>>
> I have been using this since 3.5:
>
> set prompt="%B%{\e]2\;%n@%m %l %~%#^g\e]1\;%n@%m^g\r%}%m\:%~%#%b "
>
> still works. I use a custom /etc/csh.cshrc file so it is window
> manager independent. I took a shot at translating this using the man
> page a couple of years ago.
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